Slander Quotes

• The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

  Barack Obama

  Mind Blowing, Islam, Hussein

  "Obama U.N. Speech: A New Religion Doctrine" by Lauren Markoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

  Socrates

  Life, Words Of Wisdom, Tools

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Honesty, Libel

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Coward, Defense

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.126

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• To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

  George Washington

  Deserving It, Evil, Gossip

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.76

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• Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Men, Occupation

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• Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

  Vanna Bonta

  Coward, Implementing

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• What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Doors, Judging, Guilty

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• It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Hurt, Heart

  Following the Equator ch. 45, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• There is no protection against slander.

  Moliere

  Protection

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• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Hypocrisy, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Funny, Witty, Nice

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• The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Bird, Fruit

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• Slander is the solace of malignity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Solace

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.84

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• Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Children, Truth

  "Gems of Thought" edited by Charles Northend, 1888.

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• The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Liars, Men, May

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

  Daniel Lapin

  Lying, Ears, Effects

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

  William Shakespeare

  Possession, Succession

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424

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• Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

  Joseph Addison

  Water, Mind, Invisible

  The Spectator no. 476, 5 Sept. 1712

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• The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

  Aeschylus

  Tongue, Stranger, Malice

  Aeschylus (1821). “The tragedies of Aeschylus”, p.88

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• All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

  William Davenant

  Strong, Overcoming, Birth

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• Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

  Washington Irving

  Space, Evil, May

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.1082, e-artnow

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• No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

  Moliere

  Attention, World, Safe

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  Victor Hugo

  Society, Trying, Republic

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• The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Dream

  Obama’s Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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